Example Sentences

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“Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, / Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,” Sara Teasdale wrote in “September Midnight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2022

The whole place was strangely scentless: a spread of neo-brutalism and Faraday Cage Folly architecture, sterile sculptures studded with hostile textures, quasi-public outbuildings like amphitheaters and gazebos that were functionally useless and inaccessible.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022

Vegetable oil typically refers to soybean oil: flavorless, scentless, colorless, and with a high smoke point — the temperature at which oil starts to burn and emit smoke — that's ideal for high-heat cooking.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

The invisible, colourless, scentless, soundless abyss that our generation has chosen to ignore.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood